M 7.3 in Indonesia on 29 Dec 2021 18:25 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1303929
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.3M
Glide number: EQ-2021-000211-IDN
Depth: 166.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.5924 , 127.5808
Event Date: 29 Dec 2021 18:25 UTC
30 Dec 2021 03:25 Local
Exposed Population: About 72000 people in MMI
70 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 29 Dec 2021 18:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Indonesia)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Timor-Leste= 6.6; Indonesia= 4.8

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 1 0 1
us7000g7lx Scaled population (raster) 3.57 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -1.73 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.79      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.96      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),